Just Returned From Publix; Maybe We Do Need Military Curfews Because People Are Idiots

Man what an eye opener.

Saw multiple people wiping their noses and touching food. Guy slicing meat in the deli actually wiped his nose on his wrist and hand while slicing someone’s meat.

Customer on one aisle was coughing hard and loud into the air, covering nothing. Woman touched about twenty avocados before deciding on one. Saw another guy make a huge loud sniff and cough then run his entire open hand across and down his whole face before then immediately touching stuff on the shelf.

They have like 15 checkouts but only three open and all three are right next to each other so you have a mass ball of people when it’s unnecessary. Why not keep an empty checkout between?

Store worker wedges his way in to put candy on checkout shelf and literally brushes against me while doing so, staying and standing right next to me. I say “are you for real right now? How about a little space?” He gives me a blank empty stare and continues.

Bagger tells me to put my stuff on the conveyor. I say “no thanks I’ll hold it.” She tells me again, seemingly perplexed. I say again, “no thanks.” She says why? I say because I’m trying to touch as few surfaces as possible, especially those that are touched thousands of times every day. It’s not hard for me to hold my items. She looked confused.

More Publix employees gather, talking, so now I’m surrounded by about six of them all within reaching distance. “Are we trying to see how many people we can get in a single small area? Have y’all not heard about social distancing?” I get nothing but blank stares.

If people would use common sense we could go about our daily lives with minimal disruption. How hard is it to do simple common sense things like not stick your fingers in your nose and mouth for a short time, wash your hands, touch stuff less, and keep six feet between you and someone else?

If people can’t use basic common sense and act like adults then maybe they need to be treated as children and sent to their rooms and told to stay there.

Rant off.